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(Auction)Highlights of Americana from Two Estates
Once again, a powerful piece of music memorabilia was top lot at a Case auction. This time a 1964 copy of Meet the Beatles with a handwritten tribute to Dr. Jules Gordon and the signatures of all four members of the band climbed to $75,400.A. Welling LaGrone Jr. was a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)VermontADA Donates Show Profits to Food Banks and Flood Relief
The Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association held its 37th annual show on July 30 and 31, 2011, at the Union Arena in Woodstock, Vermont. According to the association, admission ticket profits have been donated and distributed to three Woodstock area food shelves: Woodstock Community Food Shelf, Reading-Brownsville Foodshelf, and Neighbors Helping ... (Read More)
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(Show)The San Francisco Antiques Show
This turn-of-the-20th-century German Noah's ark "of unusually large size" with "quite a few" animals was priced at $12,900, including the animals, by Yew Tree House Antiques, New York City.The label for these circa 1935 English reconstituted stone seated putti described them as "an engaging pair." Finnegan Gallery, Chicago, priced the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Another British Import
In this issue of Maine Antique Digest, we've included a special color pullout section previewing the events during Americana Week in New York City, the fortnight of shows, auctions, and exhibitions in mid- to late January that surround the venerable Winter Antiques Show.There's no question that Americana Week is a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Midwestern Sculptural Stoneware Based on "The Arkansas Traveler" Sold at Crocker Farm
$19,550.Currier & Ives, The Arkansas Traveller.by Karl H. PassA rare hand-molded salt-glazed stoneware sculpture of a log cabin with a family and animals sold for $19,550 (includes buyer's premium) at Crocker Farm in Sparks, Maryland, on October 29, 2011. The piece recently surfaced in Illinois, according to the Zipps of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, [email protected] Merry Christmas, One and All...I looked hard for something appropriate and Christmassy with which to open this month's "Letter," but nothing presented itself, and in the end, the closest I came-and even then it occurred to me only after I had written the piece-was De Nova ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Sales of Magnificent Jewels
Circa 1925 Art Deco diamond brooch of geometric motif, mounted in platinum, centering upon a bezel-set old-European-cut diamond, with an openwork old-mine-cut and old-European-cut diamond plaque, in a burgundy leather case signed "Casa Weil, Santiago." It sold for $25,000 (est. $15,000/20,000). Christie's.The signed Tiffany & Co. circa 1930 Art Deco ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Breininger Sale
Fraktur artist Johann Conrad Gilbert painted this birth certificate for Elisabeth Kunckel, dated 1815, 8" x 13 1/4". The central script is flanked by two trumpeting male angels with striped coats and stylized flowers in bright yellow, red, green, and blue. Estimated at $15,000/25,000, it sold to collectors in the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale at New Orleans Auction Galleries
Opening the Sunday session was a collection of Mexican gold coins from the estate of Fernando Jimenez-Torres of Laredo, Texas, that brought a total of $238,790. This lot of three 50-peso pieces-approximately 112.5 grams of pure gold-sold for $6150.An exquisite seven-piece Paris porcelain tea set, with a rare paper label ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Executive Director at Hyde Hall
Dr. Jonathan Maney is the new executive director at Hyde Hall in Cooperstown, New York, a National Historic Landmark, on the National Register of Historic Places, and a New York State Historic Site. Dr. Maney brings extensive experience in event and conference planning, education outreach, program development, historic preservation, and ... (Read More)
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